Originally published on expo.dev/changelog

By Alan Hughes, Brent Vatne

Today we're announcing the release of Expo SDK 56. SDK 56 includes React Native 0.85 and React 19.2 . Thank you to everyone who helped with beta testing.

Expo UI is now ready for production

As of SDK 56, the Jetpack Compose (Android) and SwiftUI (iOS) APIs in Expo UI are stable. We've added Expo UI to the default [create-expo-app](https://docs.expo.dev/more/create-expo/) template, so new Expo apps can use a rich set of native UI primitives right out of the box, and Expo UI is now available in Expo Go.

This milestone release builds on three SDK cycles of iteration across SDK 53, 54, and 55.…